ECONOMY, EFFICIENCY AND THE MILEAGEMAN1
	If you’re concerned about the quality of the air we breathe, and air pollution, I am too and that’s why I’m including the following true story about air pollution, efficiency and fuel economy.

This happened a few years ago when I was still in the automotive business.
	A longtime friend had a coworker who he really didn’t like. The coworker had an identical car to my friend. The coworker drag raced the car at a local drag strip and had gotten some form of sponsorship from the local dealer. The coworker also had a big mouth and shot it off a lot, especially around my friend.

Can we silence this guy?

My friend came to me one day and said he’d really like to see what we could do to his car because he wanted to take it to the drags and silence the coworker. I told him to get me all the information he could about what we could legally do to the car, so he wouldn’t have to worry about being disqualified for illegal parts or engine work. He got the information and we began the project, part of which was the spawning ground for Mileageman1.

Mileageman1 does the job.
	One of the additions, we took nothing off the car including the emission controls, was an early Mileageman1 prototype. Nothing was in the bottles except water, no super or exotic fuel, not even alcohol, which I recommend be run in the winter to keep the water from freezing.

Silence is golden!
	My friend went to the drags and handily beat his coworker. The next week, after some work at the dealer, my friend beat him again. The third try was the same and the coworker’s car was found to be illegal. My friend's coworker was banned from racing at the local strip for a designated time.

Was it legal?
	My friend was a working man and also drove his car on the street. He told me, after the following incident, that he’d avoided emission control checks because, since the car ran so much better and got better fuel economy, he thought maybe it wouldn’t meet the required spec’s.

No Way out.

We lived in Oregon and he was going across the Burnside Bridge when he saw they were stopping cars and checking emissions. There was nowhere to turn around, so he just held his breath and stayed in line. When the inspector stuck the snorkel up the tailpipe he pulled it out and reinserted it. Then he turned the machine off and on and tried again. Then, he went to the next car in line and tried it there. Everything was working, so he tried my friend’s car again. The inspector asked my friend, “I know the engine is running because I can feel the exhaust on my hand, what kind of fuel are you running?” Regular gas was the answer.

What's under the hood?

When the inspector asked to see under the hood, my friend figured he was in trouble, even though I’d told him we didn’t take anything off and had only done efficiency type cylinder head work, added the prototype and performed a super tune. The inspector looked at what was on the car, pinched hoses, checked diagrams, asked what the bottles were for and what was in them. My friend told him they were for increasing fuel economy and only contained water.

My friend drove off with a smile on his face while the inspector, scratching his head, watched him go.

The moral of the story is: you don’t have to be illegal to get better mpg and increased horsepower. You just have to do what works, and Mileageman1 works.
	Disclaimer: I have no way of knowing what is required in each individual state. The buyer needs to find out what is and what isn’t legal and permissible where they live. Our cars are emissions legal where we live.